Author: Prakash Das
Date: 10:06:06 05/04/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 22:06:50, Will Singleton wrote: >On May 03, 1999 at 20:37:31, Prakash Das wrote: > >>On May 02, 1999 at 12:10:26, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>On May 01, 1999 at 22:33:58, James Robertson wrote: >>> >>>>On May 01, 1999 at 19:29:38, odell hall wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>>This is the same person who accuses IBM of fraud. Just because he is a world >>>>>>champion doesn't mean that all of his opinions are correct. (Fischer, anyone?) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I don't think anyone ever claimed that all of his opinions were correct. But I >>>>>think even his enemies would admitt that on matters of chess he is the premier >>>>>authority! Then on subjects of Politics or philosophy I would listen to kaspy >>>>>with a grain of salt but when it comes to chess , surely his opinion should be >>>>>taken seriously certainly above a 2500 AND BELOW CHESS PLAYER. >>>> >>>>I am not disagreeing with you, but he claimed that DB had cheated, saying "No >>>>computer could play a move like Be4", which certainly sounds like he is talking >>>>about chess. Because of his comments (he is after all the premier authority) do >>>>you believe that DB had to have cheated? >>>> >>>>James >>> >>>I am disagreeing with him. :) On matters of computer chess, he is FAR from an >>>authority. The developers of computer chess software (and hardware :) are the >>>experts when it comes to this debate. >>> >>>What I think is really cool about it is we have just seen Deep Blue pass a >>>limited Turing Test. The best player in the world thinks that it cheated, it >>>had to be a human playing some of those moves! >>> >>>Dave >> >> Uhh.. how? DB team had access to GMs during the progress of the game. Also, the >>computer crashed a few times during play and rebooted. Which raises suspicions >>of changes inflicted on it by humans before/after. >>Kasparov knows quite a lot, he is not your usual Salov mouthing off, or Judit >>Polgar demanding huge appearance fees even though she is not that good (thrashed >>by Fritz) >> Limited turing test.. uh. >>That's why I stopped posting to internet. > > >Thanks for your insight, uh. > >Will Is this the moderator I voted for? I wonder how your one-line derisive sentence enhanced CCC.
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